RE: "God doesn't Exist"- Claim or Conclusion
December 24, 2016 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2016 at 1:42 pm by robvalue.)
To address a few of these other weird ideas from Steve:
Mathematics is a series of entirely abstract systems which need only to be internally consistent. They may or may not have any relevance to reality. I have no idea what saying maths is unfalsifiable is supposed to mean.
Aesthetics is about entirely subjective value judgements and as such is making no claims about the actual nature of reality. So it makes no sense to say it's unfalsifiable.
It's claims made about reality, or things that supposedly exist, being unfalsifiable that makes them useless. The point is that without any way to tell the difference, there is no practical difference. For example, simply stating "God is doing X" is useless if we have no way of differentiating that from God doing no such thing. It simply becomes an assumption that this is indeed the case.
Mathematics is a series of entirely abstract systems which need only to be internally consistent. They may or may not have any relevance to reality. I have no idea what saying maths is unfalsifiable is supposed to mean.
Aesthetics is about entirely subjective value judgements and as such is making no claims about the actual nature of reality. So it makes no sense to say it's unfalsifiable.
It's claims made about reality, or things that supposedly exist, being unfalsifiable that makes them useless. The point is that without any way to tell the difference, there is no practical difference. For example, simply stating "God is doing X" is useless if we have no way of differentiating that from God doing no such thing. It simply becomes an assumption that this is indeed the case.
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